anatomy

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Translations 1.4 See also

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[edit] Etymology

From French anatomie, from Latin anatomia, from Ancient Greek ἀνατομία, from ἀνατομή (anatome), “‘dissection’”), from ἀνά (ana), “‘up’”) + τέμνω (temnō), “‘I cut, incise’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

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• IPA: /əˈnætəmi/, SAMPA: /@"n{t@mi/

[edit] Noun

anatomy (plural anatomies)

1. The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.
2. The science that deals with the form and structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.
   • Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together, according to the knowledge of them which is given us by anatomy. --Dryden.

   Animal anatomy is also called zomy or zootomy; vegetable anatomy, phytotomy; and human anatomy, anthropotomy.

   Comparative anatomy compares the structure of different kinds and classes of animals.

3. A treatise or book on anatomy.
4. The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse.
5. (archaic) A skeleton, or dead body.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 68:

     So did the Ægyptians, who in the middest of their banquetings, and in the full of their greatest cheere, caused the anatomie of a dead man to be brought before them, as a memorandum and warning to their guests.

[edit] Derived terms

• comparative anatomy
• gross anatomy

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[edit] See also

• phytotomy
• zootomy